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Method of bringing water to a field from another place to water crops
What is irrigation?
100
Type of material used to record Sumerian history and business
What is clay?
100
The "cradle of civilization"
What is Mesopotamia
100
An independent state made up of a city and the surrounding land and villages
What is a city-state?
100
The only people allowed in the shrine at the top level of the ziggurat
Who are priests and priestesses?
200
The amount of rainfall Mesopotamia received
What is less than 10 inches?
200
Writing tool made of a sharpened reed
What is a stylus?
200
The body of water that the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers flow into
What is the Persian Gulf?
200
A giant temple with tiers like a giant wedding cake and a shrine on top
What is a ziggurat?
200
This aspect of Mesopotamian geography made city-states extremely easy to invade and created a need for a wall around each
What is flat land?
300
Crops that were grown in Mesopotamia
What are wheat, barley, onions, apples, dates, grapes, and figs?
300
Sumerian record keeper
What is a scribe?
300
River in Mesopotamia that joins the Tigris River near the Persian Gulf
What is the Euphrates River?
300
Protected each city-state from outside invaders
What is a wall?
300
A complex society with cities, organized governments, art, religion, class divisions, and a writing system
What is civilization?
400
A period when very little or no rain falls
What is a drought?
400
Sumerian written language
What is cuneiform?
400
River in Mesopotamia that joins the Euphrates River near the Persian Gulf
What is the Tigris River?
400
Sun-dried bricks were made with this mixture
What is river mud and crushed reeds?
400
The wild man that Gilgamesh befriends
Who is Enkidu?
500
Very fine and fertile soil that settles on the floodplain
What is silt?
500
The oldest story ever recorded
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
500
A region in southern Mesopotamia
What is Sumer
500
A Sumerian invention that we still use today?
What is a wheel, plow, sailboat, or calendar?
500
A skilled crafts person who made metal products, cloth, or pottery
What is an artisan?